What You'll Do
The Senior Product Manager for Optics defines and implements the product line strategy for the company, including product roadmap and requirements, marketing strategy and focus and long-term planning. This position manages the product through its lifecycle, from development to launch, sampling, volume production and end-of-life. The Product Manager works closely with R&D on the product definition, with Sales on strategy and customer engagement, and with Operations on short and long-term forecasting.
Responsibilities include:
- Contribute to product line roadmap and new product pipeline.
- Help develop and drive execution of product roadmap and product strategy to be in line with corporate strategy and business goals.
- Manage products through entire product lifecycle from kick-off through to end of life
- Drive cross functional core product team.
- Provide insight to management on major market/customer changes, business outlook, potential risks, and resource constraints.
- Develop product price strategy and support quoting process.
- Propose and initiate cost reduction programs to improve profitability of the product line.
- Provide product requirements and priorities to R&D for new product development.
- Develop and maintains key customer contacts.
- Support sales team on customer engagements, including technical and business support on new product qualifications.
Who You'll Work With
You will be working with a world-class team of highly skilled product managers and applications engineers. All have a strong educational background ranging from a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering to a PhD Electrical Engineering as well as industry experience working with Optics and Electronics. You will also collaborate with cross functional teams within Cisco and external companies and customers.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Optics, or relevant degree + 12 years of tech industry experience.
- 5+ years of Product Management experience.
- Experience with Microsoft Office Applications: Power Point, Excel, Word.
Preferred Qualifications:
- MS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Optics, or relevant degree + 8 years of tech industry experience.
- Electronics or optics design experience.
- Optics industry experience.
- Experience with Silicon Photonics.
We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another - from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).